Domenico Silvio Passionei

Domenico Silvio Passionei (* December 2, 1682 in Fossombrone near Urbino, Italy, † July 5, 1761 at Camaldoli in Monte Porzio Catone ) was Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Life

Passionei went in 1695 to Rome, where he studied philosophy at the Collegio Clementino and law at the University La Sapienza. Already at this time he was in contact with many scholars in Europe, including Protestants and Jansenists. In 1706 he was sent as legate to Paris, where he remained for two years. After that he took part in the peace conferences at The Hague in 1708 and Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1712 as a result of the War of Succession as an emissary of the Holy See.

After his return to Rome he was prelate, but withdrew from 1717 to 1721 to his estate in Fossombrone back, after he was denied the post of apostolic nuncio. Under the new Pope Innocent XIII. He was then appointed in 1721 but nuncio in Lucerne and Titular Archbishop of Ephesus. From 1730 to 1738 he was nuncio in Vienna. On June 23, 1738, he was then taken as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Bernardo alle Terme in the College of Cardinals. 1741, he became deputy librarian of the Vatican Library under Angelo Maria Querini, whom he succeeded in 1755 to the position of senior librarian. 1755 he joined also the title church of Santa Prassede, but kept in commendam to 1761 in addition his old titular church at.

His extensive collection of books with numerous manuscripts was purchased after his death in 1761 for the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome.